Story+1973-10-31+Bryn+Mawr,+PA

”(?) he said ‘Tell you in the music business, soon as you put, soon as you put your name down on that paper, go up....’ Like I went into Columbia....you go in the elevator, right......and they take you up.....you see the clouds passing you by.....you walk out and there’s all these cats in white robes.....no, no, I’m not jiving you now.... they’re all up there, all the presidents, they´re all up there in those long white robes .....and the contract with the little gold (?) and they say.....’Sign here, son’ (chuckles) ..... and first thing they did, they’d say ‘Hit ‘em in their hearts.....write....write a love song’....so....so this song is about uh.....’bout, sorta ‘bout Asbury Park.....which....is about an hour and a half away from here.....and is uh.....(?).....last year, before, before we had any jobs.....we didn’t get jobs, last year.....I was just.....just letting it be (?) (chuckles).....(?) hanging, hanging around the boardwalk....and this is sort of uh..... I been trying to get CBS to put me on TV in the afternoon (laughter) , I want to..... I wanna do a soap opera, right.....for a week but uh......talk to (?) ‘bout that.....there’s a spider on my leg (chuckles)....there you go.....”
 * 31.10.73 Bryn Mawr, PA, intro to ‘Sandy’**

”We got a special, this Halloween trick-or-treat, we got a special treat for you tonight....we got Albee Tellone.....one of our roadies gonna play.....the baritone for us.... Albee Tellone on the baritone saxophone.....we’ve played some (?)....we played out west (?).....Blood, Sweat and Tears, we did this gig with them.....and we played with Chicago.....and we figured we gotta keep up, right.....this is a very competative business, man.....you can’t fall behind for a minute, you keep right up (?)(chuckles) ..... so....so we’re gonna debut tonight the E Street horn section (laughter) (chuckles) ..... special guest Albee Tellone on the saxophone.....gotta give ‘em a minute to warm up, folks, they don’t.....gotta give ‘em a second to warm up, they’ll be alright..... (some sax playing)....they’re all warmed up now.....”
 * 31.10.73 Bryn Mawr, PA, intro to ‘The E Street Shuffle’**

(drum soloing) (?) played a hullabaloo club ?....do they have hullabaloo clubs down here ?.....they didn’t ?....they did ?....(?) with fluorescent orange....if you ever played a hullabaloo club, you had to play, a while ago they went out of business.....this is back about ‘70, I guess.....you played a hullabaloo club, you had to play 15 minutes, no , 55 (?) (laughs).....and the drummer had to keep the beat...so that there wouldn’t be any fighting, right.....but anyway soon as there was a fight, the first thing they tell you to do is play......(?) on stage, ‘Keep on playing’.....it’s so hard ....to be a saint in the city....”
 * 31.10.73 Bryn Mawr, PA, intro to ‘It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City’**

”This is a song about uh......this is a triangle romance song.....there is uh.....about this guy Zero.....and uh his girlfriend.....Blind Terry....and uh ....(laughter) huh ?.....and uh her father.....right.....who is uh.....not too (?).....but he’s uh.....that’s what went down, Zero is uh.....you’ll hear in a minute.....”
 * 31.10.73 Bryn Mawr, PA, intro to ‘Zero and Blind Terry’**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//